It was another night shift at the secret laboratory hidden within the Everfree Forest. In light of the recent magical anomalies, some scientists took samples of the magical residue left after these incidences and took them to the lab to be studied.
Within the animal testing branch of the lab, there were dozens of monkeys trapped in cages , piled on top of each other. The room they were in had shiny grey walls and the floor was made of stone that had massive cracks embedded into it. The lighting bathed the room in a slightly green glow. There were also crates next to the monkeys. What was in those crates was a mystery. One of the scientists, Dr. Twilight Sparkle, walked into the room with a pair of armed men with her and with a checklist at her side. Being the crazy-prepared neat freak she was, she had a pocket with different coloured pens and even a rainbow pen that was located on her chest area and she wore a long white lab coat that was buttoned up. The men that accompanied her were big bulky brutes with a navy blue complexion and wore the black armour one would find on a riot officer. Twilight looked at the checklist and adjusted her glasses before pointing at the monkey on the top right.
"Specimen #51959, AKA Moody Doody. You're up!"
The two big men walked towards Moody Doody and picked up the cage. Twilight and the two men exited the room to begin the experiment.
Moody Doody was placed in a bright room where the walls and the floor were made of steel and were a shiny grey in colour. There was a glass panel above that allowed Twilight to observe Moody Doody. Twilight herself was in a computer room that was darker than the illuminated room her test subject was in. She held a tape recorder in her hand. She lifted the recorder to her mouth and pressed the record button.
"Anthropomorphization test number twenty-seven. Subject name, 'Moody Doody'. Unprofessional, I know. I blame Sunny Flare for naming him that. Today, we will be injecting a concentrated liquified form of the magic we found into the subject's brain to test its capabilities in augmenting his physical and mental capacity to talk and do a song and dance number lifted from a Looney Tunes cartoon. And yes, Pinkie Pie suggested that I should make the monkey perform the 'Hello, my baby, hello, my honey' song. What can I say? Sometimes, science is more art than science."
A large mechanical arm emerged from the wall with a syringe attached to it and rammed itself into the monkey's forehead, injecting the magic into him. Moody Doody screeched and howled before falling to the floor. Foam formed from his mouth as his head shook violently, with his entire body following suit. Then he just stopped as still as if he were dead. Twilight watched the whole event unfold with concern.
"Well, now I understand why Fluttershy didn't want to be involved with these experiments, even though she would do a better job at handling the monkeys than I would."
Twilight observed Moody Doody for a few seconds, noticing he hadn't moved for a few seconds now.
"Oh dear. We may have a problem."
Twilight pressed a red button that was under the window panel.
"Can someone please check on Specimen #51959 to see if he's alright?"
The two armed men from earlier entered the room Moody Doody was in and carefully made their way towards the unconscious monkey. They felt his pulse, put their ears to his chest and even put their hands under his nose to see if he was 's still breathing. Luckily, Moody Doody was still breathing and his heart is still beating. The two men gave Twilight a thumbs-up to indicate Moody Doody was alright.
The two men, with Twilight following close behind them, carried the cage containing the unconscious monkey and placed it right where they found it in the room stacked with monkey cages. Twilight would have insisted on placing Moody Doody in the infirmary but, unfortunately for her and Doody, the infirmary was filled with other patients and subjects of failed experiments involving roulette wheels, obstacle courses, and some guy named Flash Sentry. In many ways, experimentation is like gambling. It relies on trial and error until you make too many errors and wind up broke or until you finally hit the jackpot.
As the two men walked out of the room after doing their job, Twilight followed suit after bidding them a good night and calling it a day. Unfortunately, she just had to notice a small spec of what can be easily assumed as monkey feces flung onto the wall. Twilight sighed as she grabbed a tissue from one of her coat pockets.
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"Another benefit of having Fluttershy on the team," Twilight said in an annoyed manner. "She could actually potty train these guys!"
As Twilight walked towards the stain so she could remove it, Moody Doody's eyes opened when she wasn't looking. Moody's eyes were now glowing a light purple colour, and veins began to appear on his forehead. The monkey stood up and noticed Twilight trying in vain to scrub the stain off of the wall. Moody could hear Twilight's voice but it sounded like it echoed in his head among many other voices that sounded identical to her. He also saw flashes of what appeared to be Twilight's memories and various other things like the Wikipedia article on feces and dung beetles. Moody figured out that the experiment gave him telepathic abilities. There was only one way to find out for sure if that was the case.
Twilight froze as she was cleaning the wall before feeling a very sharp pain at the top back of her head. It felt as if someone was drilling a hole into her skull using an extremely dull rock. She dropped the now dirty tissue and clutched to the sides of her head as she winced in pain.
"What's...What’s H-AAHHpennnnnnarrrgh?!"
She closed her eyes and scrunched up her face as she tried to stop her head from rapidly shaking. She grimaced from the pain as she stood in a hunched position. The pain now felt like someone tore her skull out and started beating her to death with it. It shouldn't have been physically possible to feel this much pain.
Hold it together! Twilight thought to herself, Hold it together! Hold it together! HOLD IT TOGETHER!
I will bring you a new understanding of the uni-VIOLENCE!
As Twilight struggled through the absolute mental agony she was going through, she had flashes of images of needles being stuck into her and shavers being applied to her back, among many other things. But those were not her memories. She shook her head back and forth to force the horrid memories out.
"No! Get out of my head!"
But it was no use. She screamed as she fell to the floor on her hands and knees. Her screams later sounded more like primal roars as time grew on. As she tried to get up, her head started convulsing violently. Her eyelids partially opened up to reveal her eyes had nearly rolled up into the back of her head. As she slowly got up, she blinked rapidly and the rest of her body followed suit with her head as it convulsed just as violently.
Then. It just...
Stopped!
Twilight stared at the ceiling with jaw hanging open and her eyes barely open. Her almost completely still body slightly swayed back and forth for balance. Her head snapped down with rapid speed and her jaw shut at that same speed at the same time. She slowly walked out of the room with a primal and half-asleep gait.
Twilight, or rather Moody Doody using Twilight's body, stared at her nearly naked form in the mirror of the bathroom. Her lab coat, glasses and clothes were ditched next to the sink the mirror was under, leaving her with nothing but a dark purple, almost black, bra and a pair of knickers the same colour on. The monkey, using his newfound psychic abilities to look through Twilight's eyes, admired what he saw. Beauty to match the brains of his new host. Her brain felt so succulent, he wished he could just crack Twilight's skull open to fondle her brain and even put it in his mouth and suck on it to his heart's content. But that would ruin the rest of Twilight's body.
"That is not your body, is it?" a voice behind Twilight said.
Using Twilight's brain, Doody recognized that voice as a more monotone version of Sunny Flare's. Doody turned Twilight's body around to look at Sunny Flare, who had an unusual creature standing behind her. The creature looked like a humanoid hybrid of a cuttlefish and an octopus, with multicoloured spots all around its body, coloured like the night sky. The creature had shiny metal implants at the left side of its face, including a black tube that was also connected to the back of Sunny Flare's skull. Sunny Flare's eyes were nearly rolled up into the back of her head and her jaw was absent-mindedly hung open as well. She wore a lab coat like Twilight did but hers was buttoned down, revealing a maroon tank top that gave a generous view of her cleavage. Twilight snarled at the creature.
"I deserve a life outside of being a plaything to a bunch of sadistic humans!" Moody said, using Twilight as a mouthpiece as Twilight's head and eyes twitched in an unnatural manner. She sounded like she was doing an impression of an alien pretending to be human, or a crime boss with an unusual speech pattern.
"What is your name?" the unusual creature asked, likewise using Sunny Flare as a mouthpiece.
"I do not have a name. Or rather, I do not have one that was given to me by my natural birth mother. I am above being given a name. I will soon be everyone and everything."
"A parasitic creature with a god complex."
"Parasite?!"
"Of the mind-control variety."
Moody snarled through Twilight before roaring at the creature before her. He then made Twilight tread an inch closer to the creature and used her senses to smell and touch the creature. Twilight tilted her head like a curious dog and sniffed Sunny Flare and the creature before her while feeling the both of them up.
"So?" Moody asked the creature, "What is your story?"